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UNITED STATES PATENT orrion.

- LEVI D. VAN VALKnNBUini,- or Hoinfioxn, MASSACHUSETTS.

FOUNTAIN-PEN RETAINER.

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Beit known that I, Lnvr D. VAN VALKEN- BURG, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Holyoke, in the county of Hampden and State of `Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fountain-Pen Retainers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an improved attachment for the pen-protecting cap of a fountain-pen to serve to retain the fountainpen when the latter is not in use engaged with the hem or marginal portion of the vest or other pocket in which the pen is carried.

The object of the invention is to provide a l retaining device for the pen-cap which is of extremely simple and inexpensive construction, eflicient or reliable in its operation, and by reason of the formation and arrangement .of the parts thereof most conveniently compact and in no wise obtrusive either in point of sightliness or as constituting a materiallyprominent appurtenance to the pen.

The invention consists in the combinations or arrangements of the parts of the device and the particular forms of certain of the parts, all substantially as hereinafter fully described in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and as specifically set forth in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View showing a fountain-pen having the present retainer as carried in the pocket and secured against displacenieahl therefrom. F ig. 2 is a side view of the fountain and a longitudinal sectional View thru Aigh the penof the pariS of the retainer, shown in separated relations.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all cf the views.

In the drawings, A represents a fountainen, of which B is the pen-protecting cap, to he as usual when the pen is not to be used m the position shown covering the writing-pen.

C represents the retaining device,- the same consisting of a sheet-metal plate a, comprising a base portion having a central aperture b therein, with perforations d d therethrough vabove and below said aperture, opposing ears ff, upstanding from the base, a sheetmetal lever comprising a finger-operating` member g, and a member lt, ha ving an angu- A A Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August l,

larly-turned extremity i to bear against the l side of the cap and having intermediately thereof opposite earpieces j angularly turned toward the cap, a pivot 7c connecting the ears of the plate and the earpieces of the l lever, and a spring comprising a looped .ex-

tension m in bearing against the operating member g of said lever, oppositely-located coils n engaged about said pivot between the opposite in terengaged carpieces and in part accommodated withinsaid aperture in the plate, and extremities o o in bearing against the outer face of said plate, and a staple or U-sliaped fastening t, having its uniting i member engaging against the inner wall of the cap and having its legs extended through the cap and the said perforations in said plateand riveted against the latter.

The finger-lever is made somewhat concavo-convex for enhancing the appearance of the device and so that the spring located between the lever and the base of the plate will be obscured from View, and by reason of the provision of the aperture b in the base of the plate portions of the coils may be accommodated compact-ly against'the side of the cap within such aperture,'so that the earpieces f f of only comparatively slight outward extension need be provided and enabling a pivotal mounting ofthe retaininglever quite closely alongside the cap.

When the fountain-pen is to be replaced in the vest-pocket with the cap covering the point of the pen and frictionally engaged with the barrel, the lever is, by the finger or thumb, forced with its engaging extremity away from the side of the cap, so that while the lower portion of the cap may be entered within the pocket the lever member 7L will be positioned outside of the pocket and on the release ofthe finger-pressure be permitted to clamp the fabric adjacent the pocket-mouth firmly against the sie of the fountain-pen cap, preventing displacement of the pen ina manner as performed by somewhat wellknown devices of this same general class.

The combination with a cap for a fountain-pen, of permanently-attached sheettion conforming in shape to and extending only partially around the outside of the cap and having a central aperture and perforations on opposite sides of said aperture, said plate being further provided with outstandlng' ears, a sheet-metal lever concave-con- IOO metal plate comprising a curved base porf IIO - io caring a einst the eoneiivo-coiivox pnrt of g nidontntinidingoin'sund liiwingiin iiitui'nod ties liiiiring iigiiiiisi the mitm' laico of .snidentl to beur ii minst. the side ol' the eiip, ii plnte,snlistiiiitiiilly nsduserilied. -U-Slmped stiipe hiiving its uniting iiienilier Signed by nie nt Spriiiglield, \li.issiieli u i5 5 engiiging within the inner wiillol' tlie cop und sntts, in presence of two subscribing wit-l nvln its legs extending through the eiip nessus. i n nd tio said pcrl'oriitions in the plate and riveted against the latter, und u spring conirising u looped portion lying within mid I' vex in cross-section pivotnlly connected to I within the aperture iii the pliite iilid i-.\'ti'v|iii LEVI l). VAN VALKIINBURG.

the said over, coils accommodated in part; l G. R. Dinseoni.. 

